Age of Ice and Blood: A Pathfinder System Heroic Fantasy Quest
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Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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Anyone have an idea of what would have been the common practice by young men of his means and position back in Roland's time? He's an extraordinary man in extraordinary circumstances, but he was a teenager in France not that long ago, so restraint and chastity wasn't likely at the forefront of his mind.
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I think that this is not relevant.
This is about Roland's personality and motivations. He could have been weird or not. It doesn't matter any more
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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Good point.
[X] You have never patronized such an establishment nor do you mean to.
Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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[X] "Once, at the age of manhood, to truly become one before the wars and Crusade took me beyond the touch of Christian lands."
-[X] "I admit it was...pleasurable, but nothing more than that, and I wish for more than simply that with any I would lay with."
Fuck all y'all we going maximeme medieval cliche on this bitch.
-[X] "I admit it was...pleasurable, but nothing more than that, and I wish for more than simply that with any I would lay with."
Fuck all y'all we going maximeme medieval cliche on this bitch.
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Meh
To have a crisis of faith you need to be properly faithful beforehand
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Not really impossible. Jerusalem has brothels and, though vastly squick, medieval age of consent and adulthood wasn't that high. Like 12 for girls and 14 for boys. It's not impossible for a young and stupid 16-17 year old Roland to have partaken
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Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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To be honest, I thought most of our adult life was our squire hood, the Baron's War, and then the Crusades, which in hindsight still didn't make it as unlikely as I made it as such.
Fair point.
Travler66
Let her name echo in song!
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[X] "Once, at the age of manhood, to truly become one before the wars and Crusade took me beyond the touch of Christian lands."
-[X] "I admit it was...pleasurable, but nothing more than that, and I wish for more than simply that with any I would lay with."
-[X] "I admit it was...pleasurable, but nothing more than that, and I wish for more than simply that with any I would lay with."
Snowfire
Polyglot of Chimera
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And that's quite alright. I was tempted by it too. I just found a write-in more fun personally
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[X] Snowfire
Vote closed, I want to get this done relatively quick so that we can maybe have three updates today
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DP: I have a headache, I might update less today.
Also DP probably on analgesics overdose: MOAR UPDATES
Arc 11 Post 18: Strange Bedfellows
Strange Bedfellows
Thirty Fifth Day of Ikomi-hamba (Ikomi Descendant) 1348 A. L. (After Landfall)
"Once, at the age of manhood, to truly become one before the wars and Crusade took me beyond the touch of Christian lands," it feels strange to admit it, almost shameful, not that you think Antonio Giustiniani of all men would judge you for the sin, but quite the opposite. It feels almost as though you are admitting to some monkish inclination, which you know some men might find the butt of jests. "I admit it was... pleasurable, but nothing more than that, and I wish for more than simply that with any I would lay with."
In place of laughter and mockery Antonio offers an odd look. "Well, you are certainly on the right path if you seek for more. If you will have the advice of a dissolute sailor, be wary of what sort of more you'd be getting."
He means Esha... you realize, and you do not know whether to be grateful or to glare at the man.
"Women are trouble enough when they've had decades to be set in their ways, never mind centuries."
Definitely a glare, though you cannot bring yourself to put too much heart into it. Antonio clearly cares enough to give honest advice, no matter how little you might think of it
***
Once you are back at the keep you bring those of your men who had been cursed by Isele's last song together in counsel and put before them the offer Serik had made, mentioning nothing of its cost lest that sway them to accept it so as not to cost you the egg without profit. Pete is the first to speak, a wide smile on his face:
"Best cure for drowning there ever..."
"Keep a fair tongue in your head or I'll tear it out by the root!" Tom growls, though he isn't looking at the man, but at Hugh.
"I don't... that is... I can't.... Isn't there another way?" the youngest of those cursed soldiers all but wails and you are ashamed to admit that along with pity you feel a touch of relief that you are not the only one who finds this the offer distasteful and as awkward as wrestling a greased pig.
"There are many ways to break such curses, none that we now here possess, but Moru with whom we sailed with and who is still in Apuku claimed to have some means to burn them away and he was honest in all our dealings. As well as that the spirit of fire who dwells in the holy caves of the Danuk is able to break a curse near to death upon their chief. If you do not wish to go to the Temple of Ashinu and by their arts be healed than so it shall be."
"The Danuk?" Hugh boggles. "Mort, that's a long way away from here. Will be we be going that way then?"
"The matter isn't settled one way or the other, but I won't lie to you and say another answer is right around the corner, " you sigh. "Curses are a tricky thing, death curses more than most."
"How do we know this fellow can break the curse like he says he can then?" John speaks up for the first time.
"Because all those with second sight can see it, even Silver, so if he lies about it we'll know and we'll spread the tale," you reply quickly. "That wouldn't serve him very well, now would it?"
From the look in his eye you suspect John had guessed that you had agreed to pay the priest of Ashinu something, but he does not say anything, perhaps guessing the reason for it also. "I'll be holding off on it as well if that's well with you, milord. Don't want to lay with no woman I've not laid eyes on before, least of all under a heathen roof."
"And that leaves me then..." Tom trails off, unsure as you have rarely heard him. He is silent for a stretch, then finally nods. "I'll do it."
***
Thirty Sixth Day of Ikomi-hamba (Ikomi Descendant) 1348 A. L. (After Landfall)
Only a day later you ride back to the city along with Pete and Tom, the stone egg in a small case securely tied to Silver's saddle. They go into the temple around noon, leaving you to stand in uneasy vigil waiting for their return, in part wanting to know what is happening inside and in part happy for your ignorance. Finally, as the sun sinks slowly into the west behind the wooded hills of the Coibeinn that stand between the city and the steppe, they come out garbed in brown and green robes, as well as freshly washed, but looking otherwise unharmed.
Silver's eyes flash with a spark of hidden fire: "There's no curse on them anymore, no magic at all."
As you hand off the stone egg in its case you hear Pete says: "So we get to keep these robes, right? I wonder how much they would sell for."
The three of you ride in silence back to the Koire manse, it being too late to ride out of the city without pressing need now. On the morrow you should have some time at the markets since Antonio plans to sell the golden foil off by reason of it likely being worthless to a magician without the egg.
Tom and Pete are no longer cursed.
Lost Stone Eegg
Do you buy or sell anything tomorrow?
Due to the war all bronze goods are 50% more expensive to buy and 30% more profitable to sell
[] Yes
-[] Write in what
[] No, have all you need in coin and in equipment alike
OOC: This includes any breastplates you might want to get as well as those armored coats if you want to get rid of them.
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Two did not accept, Hugh and John, you had four total.
Goldfish
Friendly Spider-Fish Abomination
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- Formerly of the Far Realm
Are we just going to use the regular selling price equals half the purchase price, or will there be variation based on haggling? For example, an Armored Coat is normally 50 gold, so selling it would get us 25, or or 32.5 gold with the 30% increased sells value.
The normal price is baseline, then I add the +50%/30% for the war and then I add haggling between 1 and 20% depending on the roll.